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Awww C-mon

Few idea’s about tomorrows speech from the strandard

Free Tertiary Education
Lifting taxes of the ‘super rich’ ( that’s an amazing idea, wonder no-one mentioned it earlier)
write off accumulated interest from student loans (subject of the week)
blah blah corrupt corporations and industry who are “All of them are contributing to the demise of humanity and the environment.”

oh and ‘ the missing million , the missing million , the missing million , the missing million

KevinH

The Herald reports:

Edit: TPPA protestors disrupt Auckland Council.

In the Super City, councillor Cameron Brewer says the council has told its staff to stay away from the office and instead work from home on Thursday because of the likelihood of major protests at SkyCity, next door to the council headquarters.

“Council meetings have been cancelled and councillors are being sent 25km south to the Manukau Civic Centre that day,” Mr Brewer said.

Edit: A day off for council staff, thanks Penny.

“I thought we resolved this is a pro-TPP council, after October’s debate failed to get the numbers against it. I’m surprised ratepayers are now being asked to fund us and many staff to relocate for the day. We should be staying put, not running away. How pathetic is that.

“Rest assured council’s overly dramatic relocation for the day will cost hundreds of thousands of ratepayers’ dollars and won’t make one bit of difference. The protesters are not after us, so why are we fleeing?

“Let’s stay put and show some resolve. Thankfully council management were not advising the royal family during the London Blitz, otherwise they would’ve been the first to bail to Scotland. Keep calm and carry on, I say.”

Edit: Cameron shows some resolve but the council executive display weakness.

In a statement, council chief operating officer Dean Kimpton said: “We view this day as a normal work day for staff. However, with more than 3000 people working in the CBD, we want to help ensure minimal disruption to working on this day and use our mobile workforce and workplace strategy to help ease pressure on transport systems, car parking and pedestrian routes.

“As a result, an annual plan [budget] workshop involving a number of councillors and staff has been moved from the central city to the Manukau Civic Building,” he said.

Edit: Presumably council staff won’t be able to attend the protest because they will be either at home or out at Manukau. Rate payers money wasted so that protestors can have a free run of the inner city. Thanks Penny.

Captain Mainwaring

So Penny, given your opposition to ‘Supercities’, what is your ideal local body structure? Is it what Auckland was before the supercity, or would you go back to the days when there were boroughs like Mt. Roskill, Onehunga, Howick etc.?
Please provide an answer instead of retreating into your bunker.

Kea

Penny let me help with your campaign 🙂

HOUSING POLICY:

A vote for Penny Bright will be a vote for affordable housing in Auckland.

Upon gaining power Penny pledges to kick out of Auckland all large businesses and corporations. This will result in approximately 45,000 job loses in the first three months. Crashing house prices right across the board.

This policy is – sustainable – and self supporting. The lack of jobs and income will see a second wave of job losses as small and medium size businesses disappear. This flow-on effect will further reduce house prices.

TRAFFIC CONGESTION:

There will be far fewer cars as people will not be able to afford them and won’t have to drive to work, because they won’t be any work. Seeing another vehicle on the way to the dole office will be a rare sight.

ENVIRONMENT:

Vast areas of Auckland city will revert to regenerating scrub and swamp land, nurturing wildlife. CO2 emissions will plummet as no one will live there and the roads fall into disrepair and become unusable.

SOCIAL SERVICES & WELFARE:

These essential services will flourish, bringing us to the next benefit [pun intended]

JOBS:

Collectively these changes will provide [very] long term employment opportunities with dozens of new jobs at the – dole office, CYF’s, Police, Corrections and Mental Health.

waikatogirl

Nostradamus

MT_Tinman:

The mad woman organising a protest?
Organising?
Aren’t you stretching that a tad?

Penny claims to have “helped to STOP the proposed Wellington ‘Supercity’ “. If she can stop a Supercity in its tracks, then organising a protest gathering of soap-dodgers would be a piece of cake, right?

Kea: Well done – that looks like a policy manifesto that Penny could use. Now could you help her out with a tourism policy?

Kea

Kea: Well done – that looks like a policy manifesto that Penny could use. Now could you help her out with a tourism policy?

TOURISM:

Tourism is an indulgence of the moneyed classes and involves flying on CO2 producing planes owned by corporations. The practice is to be discouraged. With no jobs there is little reason for holidays anyway, which is consistent with Penny’s holistic and self sustaining approach to policy.

Penny will instead promote Hikoi to other suburbs for various Hui, in order to discuss the removal of any remaining signs of civilisation created by the evil colonists and their money grubbing corporations.

holysheet

With every one unemployed, they will have no need for a holiday. Life will be one big holiday.
All those dirty capitalists from overseas will not want to come here, no one will be working in the hotels, restaurants, or tourist attractions like they used to.
In short, the whole economy will be fucked, which is what the silly bint wants.

Kea

@Kea

I know your policies are rubbish.

They don’t contain big words

Maggy, sorry I have been busy these past weeks writing speeches and policy for Trump. I could have simply stated: “We need to ban entry to large businesses and corporations until we can figure out what is going on ! “

mikenmild

Kea

Lol…what was that about NZ rugby players being world famous?

Yeah and they try and tell us the French are mad about rugby and in awe of the all blacks. The reality is we are the only country that really takes it seriously. By “we” I mean the media trying to sell advertising and promote the rather dull game by bombarding us with trivia and trying to talk it up.

Community spirit beams from Duane Major’s face as he describes reading through the 8500 pledges on his and Adam Gard’ner’s givealittle page, aiming to save a “pristine beach in the heart of Abel Tasman” from private ownership.

“I just couldn’t stop, I was up until 1am or 2am reading them all,” Major said.

starboard

Left Right and Centre

(1) Today’s pns story – there’s always one . .
I’m at the bulk bins. One of the specials (and you know when there’s some muppet and you think I’ll bet wherever I go in this giant shop I won’t be able to get away from this noddy, and so it was) is hovering around there – then I see he’s got (I think they were) brazil nuts – holding them in a pile in both hands and dropping them on the scales – loose – what the fuck ?

Me: I’m sure you’re not meant to do it like that. And you probably don’t need to be told (in his 50s? ).
Him: Fuck you – kiss my arse.
Me: Have you washed it ?
Him: Get fucked.
Me: It’s all on camera buddy. Charming. Ka ki te, mate.

And I’m meant to celebrate their ‘culture’ . . . HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They are all fuckin arseholes or munters. I ain’t celebrating that mate. (The carving is cool – what else ? Even then – they stick to narrow traditional themes – what about some other cool stuff ?)

(2)

OMG this movie is old. It came out when I was a teenager!

1960 ?

How stupid is someone who has been banned multiple times (the last stretch being 6 months), and has yet to learn how not to behave in order to avoid getting a one year ban on the next occasion?

Jumping to conclusions. Stupidity ? It could be intentional choice of commenting style – damn the consequences. Jumping to conclusions – is that stupid ? And to be pedantic – but correct –

I’ve provided details below of what is unacceptable, and will result in warnings or suspensions.

suspended, not banned. The user has not been banned – please try to get matters of fact correct if you are so capable.

Left Right and Centre

You’re saying it doesn’t matter – doesn’t mean that it doesn’t. Banned means gone for good, no coming back. Suspended means can come back. Is that a minor difference ?

Most likely it is – however, my little pep talk seems to have had a calming effect. What’s that about jumping to conclusions?

Really. You can tell all that from . . . . no evidence. So – it’s win-win for you. If the user does not get suspended, it was all because of you. If he does – well – we all saw that coming as per last time. Good one mate.